Criminal Law

The Court of Appeals affirms defendant’s conviction for possessing cocaine with intent to distribute but reverses and remands his five-year suspended sentence for possessing marijuana as excessive; defendant’s sufficiency objection on intent to distribute cocaine is waived by his failing ...

Defendant is not entitled to reversal of his bench trial convictions for sex crimes by attacking the competency of his nine-year-old deaf-mute victim, the Court of Appeals says; the trial court took care to establish victim’s competency and the record ...

In sentencing defendant on his guilty plea to conspiring to utter false financial instruments in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 514(a)(2) and 371, an Abingdon U.S. District Court orders defendant to pay $921.65, or the face value of the four ...

The Virginia Code backs a Fort Lee police officer’s view that a driver violates Virginia’s “single lane of travel” statute if he drives on, but not over, a highway boundary line, and a Richmond U.S. District Magistrate Judge denies defendant’s ...

A defendant is not entitled to a new trial on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography based on his contentions that the government violated Brady v. Maryland by failing to timely disclose exculpatory evidence purportedly located on computers ...

A defendant who showed up to claim a Ford Explorer that was discovered to be carrying $3 million worth of cocaine in its gas tank, did not show any indicia of ownership or other possessory or privacy interest in the ...

At defendant’s trial for his role in a scheme to arrange fraudulent marriages between Navy sailors and foreign nationals in return for payments, the trial court did not err in admitting hearsay statements made on recorded prison telephone calls, or ...

Defendant is not entitled to reversal of his jury trial convictions for taking indecent liberties with a minor and aggravated sexual battery based on a hearsay objection to one witness’s testimony, the Court of Appeals says; defendant’s arguments are procedurally ...

The Court of Appeals reverses defendant’s conviction of driving on a suspended license after multiple DUI convictions because her act of backing out of a marked parking space in a strip mall parking lot did not constitute driving on a ...

The Court of Appeals upholds defendant’s conviction of possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, and says the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant’s motion to reopen and reconsider his motion to suppress the gun ...